Washington Post writer Ezra Klein must be reading too, because he clicked over to that Council of Economic Advisors report on the jobs of tomorrow and had a thing or two to say:
The first is that the private sector is not projected to do a lot of job creation on its lonesome over the next [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Policy’
In Need of More Workforce Wonkery
Posted in Jobs/Workforce, tagged Jobs/Workforce, Policy on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
US House Heeds Quote of the Day
Posted in education, tagged Congress, Early Childhood Education, higher education, Policy on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Congressman George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, has proven himself an avid reader of our little blog! You see, in response to my highlighting of this morning’s Quote of the Day, about how the most important reform in post-secondary education is the advancement of early education, the good Chairman has [...]
Getting Behind by Getting Ahead, continued
Posted in Policy, tagged cliff effects, food stamps, Policy, stimulus on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I linked to an OK Policy post about “cliff effects” that reduce or disqualify people for benefits whenever they increase their earnings, sometimes leaving people even farther behind even as they get better jobs or benefits.
The Associated Press reports that ARRA, the stimulus legislation, is causing some cliff effects of its own, and [...]
Getting Behind by Getting Ahead
Posted in Policy, tagged benefits, cliff effects, Oklahoma Policy Institute, Policy on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
David Blatt at OK Policy does a nice job of explaning the “cliff effect”, whereby people lose important public benefits as their earnings increase. This means that struggling families who manage to raise their incomes face a sort of “tax” on their efforts toward economic self-sufficiency:
The cliff effect is most dramatic for Medicaid health insurance [...]
The Politics of Oklahoma Education
Posted in Policy, education, tagged education, Oklahoma legislature, Oklahoma Policy Institute, Policy on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Blatt at the Oklahoma Policy Institute details some odd alliances in the Oklahoma legislature over education reform:
But on SB 1111, a bill authored by Sen. Clark Jolley that moves various education reporting and accountability functions from the State Department of Education to the Office of Accountability based with the Regents for Higher Education, it [...]
More Okie Wonkery Coming Your Way
Posted in Policy, tagged blogs, Oklahoma Policy Institute, Policy, tax on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Oklahoma Policy Institute announced the coming launch of their very own blog. Citizens take note: you will have no excuse to lack basic (and thorough!) awareness of the most important policy issues facing our state. That includes this frightening fact: state revenues for February came in 30.4 percent below projections. That’s $104 million that [...]
A Primer on the President-elect
Posted in Policy, tagged Asset Building, Early Childhood Education, Financial Services, Obama, Policy, presidential election on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No matter what your politics, you’ve got to admit that the times are a-changin’! I thought since it’s official I’d post up a few links on President-elect Obama’s positions/plans on topics of TI interest:
Children and Family: see the campaign page and a post on Early Ed Watch.
In a nutshell, the Obama administration intends to invest [...]
Health Care Ramifications of 1804
Posted in Health, Policy, tagged Health, Hispanics, immigration, Policy on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m supposed to be posting on my research role with the Tulsa Initiative, which I will shortly. But in the meantime, and because I’m having my annual birthday birthday-week checkup today, I thought I’d post on healthcare…
Great article in The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio), of all places, about the impacts of Oklahoma’s famous House Bill 1804 [...]
SSIR’s Opinion Blog
Posted in Innovation, Research & Data, tagged Innovation, non-profits, Policy on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I frequently consult the Stanford Social Innovation Review for anything cutting edge in the non-profit world. Many of my posts will probably be a commentary or link to an article or post on their website. Today, I browsed their opinion blog and realized that this might be something worth posting here. So hear you go:
http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/
The [...]
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